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| What are the divisions of the ANS? |
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| sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions |
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| A neurotransmitter released by somatic motor nerve fibers, parasympathetic nerve fibers and some other neuron. |
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| is a collection of cell bodies outside the central nervous system. |
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| Pertaining to a neuron that transmits signals from the CNS to a ganglion |
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| Pertaining to a neuron that transmits signals from a ganglion to a more distal target organ |
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| A neurotransmitter secreted by nearly all sympathetic postganglionic neurons |
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| sympathetic division of the ANS |
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| Parasympathetic division of the ANS |
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| relating to, resembling, producing, or mediating the effects produced by nicotine on nerve fibers at autonomic ganglia |
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| relating to, resembling, producing, or mediating the effects (slowed heart rate) that are produced on organs and tissues by acetylcholine released by postganglionic nerve fibers of the parasympathetic nervous system |
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| second in order of importance |
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| What is the grey rami communicantes in the sympathetic division? |
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| One of the ways that unmyelinated postganglionic fibers (transmits signals from ganglion in PNS -> distal target) leave the ganglion. Forms a bridge back to the spinal nerve. |
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| What is the white rami communicantes in the sympathetic division? |
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| The small myelinated preganglionic (transmits signals from CNS -> ganglion in PNS) fibers travel from the spinal nerve to the ganglion by way of the white communicating ramus. |
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| What is a splanchnic nerve? |
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